이분법적 대립을 이용한 영어 유의어의 구분: Afraid to V vs. Afraid of V-ing

Abstract

This study aims to distinguish between ‘Afraid to V’ and ‘Afraid of V-ing’ using corpus-based collocation and ‘Binary Opposition(BO) Strategy, proposed by Kim(2014), to distinguish a pair of lexical/grammatical near-synonyms. The basic idea of BO is that in order to distinguish effectively between a pair of near-synonyms, the focus should be on contextual BO features such as [part vs. whole], [cause vs. effect], and [causative vs. non-causative]. The results of this study show that ‘Afraid to V’ and ‘Afraid of V-ing’ are distinguished in the context of opposite features such as [Voluntary vs. Involuntary], [Before vs. After], [Result vs. Cause], Temporary vs. Usual] and [Dynamic vs. Static].